Senior Project Planner

Senior Project Planner

Would you like to progress your career in a dynamic, rewarding and market-leading environment? If the answer is “yes”, then look no further than Vanderlande!

Your responsibilities

As a Project Planner, you will be responsible for planning all project activities. You will clearly set out decision moments and turnaround times for and with all of the disciplines involved in a project. You will set up a project plan, which ensures that opportunities and threats are identified in good time. Armed with your information and reports, project managers, project leaders and subcontractors and their teams will be in a position to set or adjust their course promptly, wherever they are in the world. You will play a central role in the projects in which you are involved. You will report to project management and be required to produce monthly project reports. Project planners are part of the Airports and/or Warehousing and Parcels Operations Team.

You will be responsible for your own projects at the Airports Customer Center. You will set priorities, identify problems and take the steps necessary to resolve them (as part of a multidisciplinary approach). You will be involved in every phase of a project: from engineering, supply and shipping to the commissioning of systems. As a project planner, you will work intensively with other disciplines, such as sales, project management, project engineering and the supply chain. You will be the key person in a project, as which you will maintain an overview of the consequences of the difference between the expectations of project management and the possibilities offered by the supply chain. You and your team will ensure that projects are completed successfully.

Your qualifications and skills

If you’re an experienced, enthusiastic and analytical project planner you will excel at:

• Effectively translating the scope of a project into an overall project plan;
• Identifying the critical path in a project plan and the corresponding opportunities and risks;
• Coordinating a project plan with the customer and subcontractors, so that an integrated project plan is achieved;
• Liaising with all of the internal and external parties involved in a project;
• Reporting on the progress being made with a project to the relevant Project Manager;
• Analysing and giving solicited and unsolicited advice on overall project plans, with a focus on Resource Loaded Scheduling and Earned Value Management to ensure realistic planning and progress tracking;
• Preparing complex plans in consultation with project team members, subcontractors, suppliers, customers, and stakeholders;
• Producing two-weekly or monthly project progress reports; If required, promptly delivering a detailed plan to internal stakeholders;
• Producing what-if analyses and alternative project plans;
• Training junior and intermediate planners;
• Preparing improvement proposals in relation to a project plan.

You should have:

• Completed Bachelor degree, preferably in technical area;
• Long-term experience of working in a project organisation;
• 3-5 years of experience in Project Planning
• A knowledge of the Primavera and/or MS Project programs is an absolute must;
• Strong communication skills and the ability to liaise at different levels. You will have the ability to involve people and to convince them of the importance of sharing and receiving information in order to identify and maintain common project interests;
• Proficiency in Dutch is required.
• You will have the ability to work under (time) pressure and set priorities appropriately;

What we offer?

This position offers a competitive salary range of € 4.600 – € 5.500 per month (excluding 8% holiday allowance). Through exceeding performance expectations, you even have the possibility to grow outside this scale.

On top of your fixed salary you’ll receive the following secondary benefits:

• 40 vacation days (20 statutory days and a flexible budget worth 20 days).
• Flexible working hours.
• A hybrid workplace (40% working from home and 60% in the office).
• A Health & Wellbeing budget worth €300,- per calendar year.
• Commuting allowance, including full reimbursement of travel by public transport.
• Working from home allowance.
• Collective pension scheme and discount on additional health insurance.
• On-site company health centres with a gym, physiotherapists and occupational therapists.
• Vanderlande Academy and training facilities to boost your skills.
• A variety in Vanderlande Network communities and initiatives.
• And a great company restaurant and coffee bar with barista.